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Re:Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day by evanw on Monday May 05, 2014 @12:22PM (#7699423)
I found a similar issue with the Square Register app for Android. CyanogenMod's PrivacyGuard feature tells me it tried to access my location 22,000+ times in a 2-day period: https://twitter.com/evanw/status/453576355284660224/photo/1/...

I assumed this was a programming issue (perhaps unregulated retries) rather than the app legitimately trying to locate me 10,000 times per day.

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Re:Swype makes almost 4000 location requests every day by thrownaway2424 on Monday May 05, 2014 @12:50PM (#7699555)
That doesn't seem terribly unreasonable. Square needs location data because the Square Wallet auto-pay magic is geofenced with respect to the register.
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